Now we have to find Owen as quickly as we may." "What of the two men ?" "One turned on us, and we slew him perforce.

The other Evan has tied up safely, though it took us all our time to catch him.

I left Evan trying to make him speak." I wondered in what way he was trying, but the path grew steeper and steeper, and the plash of water falling among the stones made it hard to hear.

We went on and on, ever upward, until the walls of the narrow glen widened, and at last we were on a barren hillside, across which the little stream found its way in a belt of green grass and fern and bog from farther heights yet, and there I looked for Evan.

The path reappeared here again, and it went slanting across the hill and over its shoulder, hardly more than a sheep track as it was.